Philologia
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Philologia is a peer-reviewed academic journal established by scholars at Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, in 2003. The journal welcomes articles, critical and theoretical essays, empirically-based analyses, book reviews, conference reports and translations related to the studies of language, linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, culture, translatology, social science. Various subfields of the said sciences may also be analyzed.
All papers are evaluated in a double-blind fashion by two external reviewers who are experts in the relevant field. The contributions are required to be solidly anchored in theory and methodology (qualitative or quantitative). They may be of interdisciplinary nature.
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- Analiza revitalizacije hebrejskog jezika – novi jezik u obećanoj zemlji
- This article analyses the revitalization of Hebrew as an often cited example of the successful revitalization of a language, whose experience can be used in the revitalization of endangered and extinct languages. The success of Hebrew is a rare example of the overlapping of political ideology, collective striving and appropriate socio-economic factors which led to the success of language revitalization. Hebrew has gone from the phase of a “holy language” of religious rites to an official language of the jewish communities in Palestine, changing its function from a religious role to a language of a state and a nation. The article deals with the historical circumstances, sociolinguistic factors as well as extralinguistic influences which affected the rehabilitation of the Hebrew language. It also deals with the revitalization process as the political and national project which influenced the changed, hybrid nature of Hebrew and underlines experiences which could be relevant for other language communities.
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- Apokalipsa iz svemira
- This paper analyses H. G. Wells’s science-fiction story “The Star”. The study is centred on the scientific thought of the astronomer Laplace, whose model of godless cosmological evolution paved the way for the late nineteenth century pessimism. Wells, as one of the critics of technocratic optimism, undermines the Victorian burgeoisie with Laplace’s cosmological evolutionism or, more specifically, with the idea that collisions between heavenly bodies play an integral role in the evolution of the Universe. Apropos of that, the planet Earth is considered to be by no means privileged in the overall arrangement of the cosmos, which results in both Christian and Deist anthropocentrism being invalidated. Our analysis, which in particular stresses the scientific background of “The Star”, concludes that Wells sets a precedent for all the future representations of star-Earth collisions in art, which, in scientific terms, is an unlikely but not an impossible event. In addition, it is concluded that Wells’s narrative language is extraordinary, and also a guess is made that Wells, to an extent, may have inspired the so-called “slingshot effect”, a phenomenon to be later on exploited in space engineering. In all-encompassing thematic terms, a conclusion is reached about the smallness of man against the background of the endless and violent cosmos.
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- Attitudinal Variables in Foreign Language Learning
- The paper gives a report on a research study conducted in an attempt to identify potential barriers in achieving higher target language proficiency. The research investigated learners’ levels of ethnocentrism and anomie; for that purpose, 112 students studying at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, enrolled in an English course for the purpose of fulfilling faculty requirements, were asked to rate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with statements expressing views about Serbian and English/ American cultures, societies and languages. The statements tested the students’ levels of: general ethnocentrism, language ethnocentrism and anomie. The participants’ responses to the statements were correlated with their levels of English proficiency as measured by a written test, which tested their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and by an interview, which tested their speaking skills. The hypothesis that there would be a significant correlation between the variables measured and the students’ score on proficiency measures was investigated.
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- Atwood’s Body Politic
- This article applies Butler’s concepts of gender as construction and performance to a selection of fiction by margaret Atwood. By using binary categories inspired by the theory of Eagleton and cixous, the author proposes a taxonomy of narrative techniques employed by Atwood to embed the female body into cultural and political discourse.
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- Avant-Pop in the light of breaking with the passatist tradition
- The article examines the phenomenon of the Avant-Pop movement from the perspective of its potential as the first organised literary movement exceeding the Modern Age specific setting of Geistesgeschichte paradigms. Focusing upon the nature of Avant-Pop’s avant-gardism and its fundamental attachment to the contemporary electronic media, the study first examines the broader social, cultural and economic environment surrounding the emergence of the movement, discusses and defines the mechanisms at its core, and applies them to those traditional aspects of literature, which provide an insight primarily into the relation between the paradigms of Subject and Transcendence. Examined against the Avant-Pop production employing the traditional literary medium, the established results of such application correspond to the Avant-Pop practice.